Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- West Bengal
- Division
- Burdwan
- Headquarters
- Chuchura
- Subdivisions
- Chinsurah Sadar , Chandannagar , Serampore , Arambag
- Cd blocks
- Balagarh , Chinsurah Mogra , Dhaniakhali , Pandua , Polba Dadpur , Haripal , Singur , Tarakeswar , Chanditala I , Chanditala II , Jangipara , Serampore Uttarpara , Khanakul I , Khanakul II , Goghat I , Goghat II , Pursurah
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Arambagh , Hooghly , Serampore
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Uttarpara , Sreerampur , Champdani , Singur , Chandannagar , Chunchura , Balagarh , Pandua , Saptagram , Chanditala , Jangipara , Haripal , Dhanekhali , Tarakeswar , Pursurah , Arambag , Goghat , Khanakul
- Total
- 3,149 km (1,216 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,753/km (4,539/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 82.55 per cent
- Sex ratio
- 961 ♂ / ♀
- Official
- Bengali
- Additional official
- English
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- hooghly .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Official name
- Hooghly district
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Burdwan division
- Contains
- Srirampore subdivision
- Capital
- Chinsurah
- Population
- 5041976
- Area
- 3149
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Nadia district
- Official website
- hooghly.nic.in
- Households
- 1043895
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- Commons category
- Hooghly district
- male population
- 2589625
- female population
- 2452351
- urban population
- 1687749
- rural population
- 3354227
- illiterate population
- 1707988
- literate population
- 3333988
- topic's main category
- Category:Hooghly district
- short name
- HOO
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- native label
- হুগলি জেলা
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Hooghly district is one of the 23 districts in the Indian state of West Bengal. It can alternatively be spelt Hoogli. The headquarters of the district is Chuchura. The district is named after the Hooghly River and is located in the Burdwan division. There are four subdivisions of the district: Chinsurah Sadar, Serampore, Chandannagore, and Arambagh.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hooghly district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.